Perth-based waste-to-energy developer Delorean has struck a deal in Adelaide to become what it claims is the first Australian supplier of biomethane to connect into an existing gas network.
Perth-based waste-to-energy developer Delorean Corporation has struck a deal in Adelaide to become what it claims is the first Australian supplier of biomethane to connect into an existing gas network.
Delorean’s agreement with Australian Gas Infrastructure Group will allow gas produced by its second SA development to be shipped to customers via AGIG’s subsidiary Australian Gas Networks pipelines.
The deal will connect Delorean’s SA1 bioenergy project, when completed, to the Adelaide gas network.
“This is the first in Australia that a project producing biomethane using commercial industrial organic waste will connect directly into a gas distribution network,” Delorean managing director Joe Oliver said.
“It’s the gas industry’s equivalent of the first clean electricity deal.”
Delorean, which was established more than a decade ago and listed in the ASX in 2021, already has commercial waste-to-energy plants up and running, but SA1 is the first that would use utility infrastructure to distribute the output.
The West Perth company’s first plant was built in 2015 for Western Australian family-owned fertiliser Richgro, which operates an organic waste-to-energy anaerobic digestor that converts about 100 tonnes of waste per day into electricity for the Jandakot business’s own use and export to the power grid.
Delorean also built a similar anaerobic digestion plant in SA for Blue Lake Milling, owned by giant WA-based agricultural cooperative CBH Group, using oat husks to fuel electricity generation used within processor’s Bordertown facility, with the excess being supplied back into the grid.
Delorean has four other projects, including two in Victoria, one in Queensland and one in New Zealand.
